On 2011-02-08 21:19 +0100, Celejar wrote:

> Recently, while using bleeding edge kernels (built from git pulls of
> vanillas sources from kernel.org), my Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Ethernet
> card, normally driven by the b44 driver, has stopped working.  Poking
> around, I discovered that the card is no longer correctly identified;
> it now shows up (with 'lspci -v' as root) as this bizarre device:
>
> 06:01.0 Network and computing encryption device: Broadcom Corporation Device 
> 0010 (rev 02) (prog-if 10)
>         Subsystem: Allied Telesis, Inc Device 0010
>         Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 10
>         Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=8K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>
> Using a stock Debian kernel (2.6.32-5-686), it shows up (and works)
> correctly:
>
> 06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 
> 02)
>         Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0090
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
>         Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>         Kernel driver in use: b44

Nice heads-up for me, I have the very same Ethernet controller.  In
2.6.37 it's working perfectly fine, haven't tried newer kernels yet.

> What on earth is this all about?

I'm afraid this list is not quite the right place for problems in
bleeding edge kernels -- net...@vger.kernel.org is probably better
suited.  See the MAINTAINERS file for other contact addresses.

Sven


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